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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 4333333" data-attributes="member: 40961">No, no, no.  You added basically all of the stuff in your post.The movie is very clear.  The villian's nefarious plan is to sell the inventions that make him super so that everyone can have them.  This will make everyone super, which, he reasons, is the same as no one being super.  This is clearly presented as 1) logical, and 2) a scary idea.  We can't have everyone being super!  The viewer is supposed to hear this and feel resentful on behalf of the Incredibles family, because they're REAL superheroes, and they're SPECIAL, and now this guy is going to take that away by making everyone else just as good as them!The problem is, the main characters didn't earn their powers at all.  They didn't earn the ability to be special.  They just had it handed to them.  Later, they did stuff with it, that's great.  Good for them.  But the fact that they have super powers was something they were born into.  It required no effort at all, no work, no nothing.For us to feel that its bad for everyone to get super powers requires us to feel that the main characters are in some way more deserving of superpowers than others.  Which is absurd- they may have done good things with their powers, but they certainly didn't earn them.Its like a landed nobleman in the medieval era arguing that the peasants can't be given the same rights as him, because that would drag him down to their level.  He wouldn't be special anymore.  And he deserves his inherited privilege!  He runs such a nice estate, and is quite kind to the little people down beneath him.</blockquote>

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